Doesn't Time Fly When You're Having Fun?

I've been home almost a whole week - not sure where it's gone, but there have been several "firsts" this week.

On Thursday, MPLST was in the office, and had heard on Radio Fit Like that Bob The Builder was playing in town. There were tickets left, so I took the chance and treated the boys to an afternoon show. I was slightly apprehensive about the 1 year old, but it turns out he will sit and watch anything for longer than most 3 and 4 year olds.

On Friday, MPLST and I celebrated the 4th anniversary of our wedding but taking the kids (plus the biggest one) and leaving them at gran and grandad's whilst we treated ourselves to some much needed time together. Gran on the other hand, decided it would be good for all the cousins to play together, so had my brother kids over too. Nutter! That's two 1 year olds, a 3, 4 and 6 year old too. Mayhem......

We got back to them on Sat, and my brother and I took the eldest 3 to a fun house. BB struggles to keep up with the older two, but didn't seem phased. All three had a great time. On Saturday night, it was just the 3 to look after - a dawdle by comparison.

Another first on Sunday for BB was a trip to the flicks. Having noted that BB could sit and watch something without being a major pain in the arse, we decided to take SS and BB, leaving LL (and my mother who was nightshift last night) to get some rest. SS has been "hundreds of times" so it was old news for her. We watched a 3D cartoon, so I just hope he doesn't expect a nice pair of dark glasses every time he visits the cinema in future!

And there we have it. I'm already 25% of the way through my leave, and still haven't shaken the nightshift body clock - this was not helped by 3 kids sharing the room next to ours at my mother's house, and then BB turning up at 4.30 this morning to tell me he had "snot."

The next few weeks will see us prepare for Santa's arrival, and it has to be well organised, because daddy is away this year.

How Not to Endear Yourself to Your Mrs

MPLST did indeed return on Friday - my absence from the world wide web has (rather unfortunately) not been because she has pinned me to the bed and has been making up for lost time. No such luck, we're just trying to squeeze in some family foursome time before I go back to work.

I didn't do myself any favours tonight though. We were returning from a shopping trip and a visit to Grandma's for the boys when, I got caught out by one of many floods on the way home. We aqua planed before blowing out one back tyre, and the rear bumper is hanging off. On the bright side, the lads slept through the whole, albeit brief, drama. I even managed to move the car 3 times to find a suitable place to jack it up, got the wheel changed and was home before either of them woke.

Now that we are all home and in one piece, we can of course laugh about the whole thing -ok, maybe a wry smile is as far as we'll go at the moment. So the car (her car!!) is a bit worse for wear. It definitely needs a new wheel and tyre. We'll assess the damage to the back end in the day light.

Safe to say though, that I don't think I'll be getting pinned to that bed any time soon......